Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.
Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle
I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned
Its Musk’s LLM, which interacts with people on X. He’s been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.
The kind of person who would use X
It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely
There’s a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w
For what its worth, Anthropic posted this in their corporate blog. So if its a joke, its coming out of vetted corporate PR.
Given its current state, this is a singularly bad idea.
By customer is easy: they’re each renting specific resources. A fractional cloud instance (excepting the sma burst able ones) is tied to specific CPUs and GPUs. And there are records of who rented which one when being kept already.
You might not be able to break out specific individual queries, but computing averages is completely straightforward
You can produce a remarkably good estimate by looking at CPU and GPU utilization out of procfs and profiling a handful of similar machines power use with similar utilization and workloads.
Network is less than 5% of power use for non-GPU loads; probably less for GPU.
Data center demand has created huge backlog of gas turbine orders. They’re not planning on renewables for the next big expansion
They know exactly what the power consumption of that hardware is though. This isnt tough to figure out just because you use a cloud provider
I’m guessing that there are security guards.
They also burn methane gas, not gasoline, which means that sugar probably isn’t an effective sabotage technique.
They mass imprisonment and cultural destruction is a more recent phenomenon. China first spent several decades bringing in colonists and executing those who complained too loudly.
Meanwhile, in the real world
The New York Times has been covering Uyghur issues since 2001.
It looks like a planned gradual turnup
I’m pointing to an old one because the causes are well known, there isn’t any current propaganda campaign to confuse people about it, and its a wide-area unanticipated failure.
You’re assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don’t expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.
Let’s assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m2 to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth’s surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we’re probably just fine on renewables.